the Las Vegas casinos are more honest than professional anthropology the graduate school journey in anthropology is littered with the corpses of fallen, outraged and often brilliant souls a ratio of at least 5:1 then there are the Adjunct anthros in universities. . . a ratio of maybe 20:1 we don't know. . . the AAA does not collect statistics on the "drop outs" er. . ."push outs" Kurt Vonnegut said the smartest anthropologist he ever knew was an adjunct. . named Slotkin he killed himself.
Brian McK -----Original Message----- From: Tom Walker <[email protected]> To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, May 12, 2013 11:20 pm Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The PhD trap There are rare exceptions. But the flip side to this is that having a Ph. D is no guarantee, either. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: mandatory qualification for teaching in higher education, employment in research, and advisory work in business and government. Without the Ph.D. degree, one cannot now hope to be permanently retained as an instructor at most of the thousands of institutions of higher learning on this continent, even in the teaching of junior undergraduates. Without the Ph.D. degree, one cannot now hope to become involved with formal research in most fields at any level higher than that of technician or research assistant. full: http://www.wilfredcude.com/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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